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Diboll, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Diboll census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75941. The Survey maps it on the Diboll quadrangle. 4,457 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Diboll within Angelina County

On record in Diboll

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Diboll fell from 4,776 to 4,457 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20104,776
20204,457-319 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Diboll between 1992 and 2020, burning about 906 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning43
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1993Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7109
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 663
22 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 247
20 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANGELINA 17:57
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina County

Storms near this place

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diboll in 38 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 9 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 8 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2002Tornado (F3)Diboll6 hurt, $5,000,000Numerous trees and power lines broken, snapped, and pulled out of the ground along the entire track. Several barns were severely damaged and numerous homes were with missing roofs while others suffered severe roof and structural damage. South of the Ora Community one house was totally blown off its foundation and destroyed. This tornado moved into Angelina County, TX from Polk County, TX and continued into Nacogdoches County, TX and San Augustine County, TX.
November 2000Tornado (F1)Diboll2 hurt, $80,000A weak tornado (landspout) developed along a weak convergence zone which draped northeast to southwest across this location. Airmass was saturated and tropical. According to local radar, Shreveport WSR-88D, and at least a dozen witnesses no thunderstorms were in the vicinity at the time. Trees blown over or broken. Several buildings lost portions of their roofs. An 18-wheeler was blown over on Highway 59 as the tornado moved over the truck while the truck was in motion. This tornado did not cross into another county.
October 2009Flash FloodDiboll$250,000Numerous roads were flooded and closed throughout the entire county. Some homes were also flooded near Hwy. 59 south near Diboll, Texas.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindDiboll$5,000Trees were downed in town and a large limb fell onto a home in Diboll, Texas.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDiboll-Several trees downed in the community of Diboll.
March 2022HailDiboll-Golfball size hail fell several miles west-northwest of Diboll. Report relayed from NWS Houston-Galveston, TX.
December 2018Flash FloodDiboll-FM 1818 at Buttermilk Road was covered in high water.
December 2018Flash FloodDiboll-The southbound lanes of Highway 59 near Diboll were flooded.
October 2018Flash FloodDiboll-FM 1818 at Buttermilk Road east of Diboll, FM 324 at the Sewer Treatment Plant just south of Lufkin, FM 2497 at Highway 59 in Diboll, and the intersection of Old Union Road and Mount Carmel Road in Hudson were all closed due to flooding.
October 2018Flash FloodDiboll-The southbound lanes of US Highway 59 south of Diboll were closed due to high water. Traffic was diverted to the northbound lanes.
May 2017HailDiboll-Hail reported along Hwy. 59 south southwest of Diboll.
April 2015HailDiboll-Quarter size hail fell in the Beulah community.
December 2014HailDiboll-Hail was reported southwest of Burke, Texas.
December 2014Thunderstorm WindDiboll-Large tree limbs greater than 2 inches in diameter were downed southwest of Burke, Texas.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDiboll-Trained spotter estimated winds to near 60 mph which downed large limbs in the Diboll community.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDiboll-Wind gust to 70 mph was measured along Hwy. 59 just south of Diboll, Texas.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDiboll-Numerous trees were downed along Hwy. 59 just south of Diboll, Texas.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDiboll-Large tree limbs were downed in Diboll, Texas.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDiboll-Powerlines were downed in Diboll, Texas.
April 2008Flash FloodDiboll-Street flooding reported in the town of Diboll, Texas.
January 2007Flash FloodDiboll-High water was reported over FM 2497 and had to be closed.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindDiboll-Large tree limbs downed. Report from a retired NWS employee.
June 2001Flash FloodDiboll-Flash flooding from Tropical Storm Allison resulted in a subdivision evacuation just south of the Lufkin Airport. Several cars were carried off by the rushing water.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindDiboll-Numerous trees and power lines toppled.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindDiboll-Numerous trees and power lines down.
November 2000Flash FloodDiboll-Water covering county roads making impassable.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindDiboll-Numerous trees and powerlines down.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindDiboll-A large tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds just south of Diboll.
April 2014HailDiboll-no account filed
June 2010HailDiboll-no account filed
March 2002HailDiboll-no account filed
April 2000HailDiboll-no account filed
May 1999HailDiboll-no account filed
January 1999Funnel CloudDiboll-no account filed
May 1999HailDiboll-no account filed
January 1998HailDiboll-no account filed
April 1997HailDiboll-no account filed
September 1997HailDiboll-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Angelina County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Rutland0.7 miles11
Shady Grove1.6 miles11
Renova (historical)2.5 miles11
Burke3.2 miles11
Prairie Grove3.5 miles13
Beulah6.0 miles13
Blix6.9 miles11
Granville7.2 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on DibollAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981840The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381758. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.